In a sign that file-sharing communities may start to turn on one another, Altnet said Thursday that rival networks may be violating its patent for digital tags, and it plans to bring to them in line.

Study shows peer-to-peer programs expose personal health files, indicating the government's security of a nationwide network of health files is "fantasy." Just days after President Obama signed a law ...

File-sharing and the U In past years, internal file-sharing at the University has prospered, partly because of MyTunes and OurTunes, software that allow iTunes users to download music shared by other ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

File-sharing appears to boost music CD buying, according to survey results released by Warez.com, a maker of file-sharing software. The online survey, which reportedly has been taken by some 150,000 ...

Decentralized file sharing — using blockchain technology to share data without depending on a centralized server — is often praised for its redundancy, security and censorship resistance. Yet, despite ...

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he ...

Even after cutting a damages award in a file-sharing case to one-tenth the original sum, a judge said Friday the new fine was still excessive. The Massachusetts judge on Friday reduced to US$67,500 an ...

half the normal price, from its Web site. Lindows has been targeting consumers with its packaged version of the open-source Linux operating system, which has a reputation of being geared more for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning that commercial producers of file-sharing software may be sued for copyright infringement. The services are popular with college students who use ...

Advocates of file sharing are distributing the latest Windows update in an effort to show that peer-to-peer networks could play a legitimate role in the distribution of commercial software.